Lucia's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:56:58 -0700 60 Lucia's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Kamikaze L'Amour 66585 The surreal jungle is more appealing to Ryder than the media-overloaded rock world, and the fractal wilderness draws Ryder to it in search of such exotic flora and fauna as his identity, the true nature of sound and light, and that elusive bloom called happiness.
Kamikaze L'Amour is a fantastic melange, an experimental symphony resonating in a Ballardian landscape through which sleepwalkers, hustlers, refugees, and soldiers search for meaning in an America transformed into a synesthetic dream.]]> 228 Richard Kadrey 0312131003 Lucia 4 3.46 1995 Kamikaze L'Amour
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]]> The Master and Margarita 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Lucia 0 to-read 4.31 1967 The Master and Margarita
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]]> My Life in Haiku 17877483
“My Life in Haiku� confirms the human, spiritual and intellectual stature of a multi-faceted and highly talented actor and painter, above all of a man who has never stopped pondering. An enriching read!]]> 176 Richard Chamberlain 148010311X Lucia 0 to-read 4.50 2012 My Life in Haiku
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]]> The Bells of Nagasaki 1030303 The Bells of Nagasaki is the extraordinary account of his experience. It is deeply moving and human story.]]> 118 Takashi Nagai 4770018452 Lucia 0 to-read 4.30 1949 The Bells of Nagasaki
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]]> <![CDATA[A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb]]> 6552272
A Song for Nagasaki tells the moving story of this extraordinary man, beginning with his boyhood and the heroic tales and stoic virtues of his family's Shinto religion. It reveals the inspiring story of Nagai's remarkable spiritual journey from Shintoism to atheism to Catholicism. Mixed with interesting details about Japanese history and culture, the biography traces Nagai's spiritual quest as he studied medicine at Nagasaki University, served as a medic with the Japanese army during its occupation of Manchuria, and returned to Nagasaki to dedicate himself to the science of radiology. The historic Catholic district of the city, where Nagai became a Catholic and began a family, was ground zero for the atomic bomb.

After the bomb disaster that killed thousands, including Nagai's beloved wife, Nagai, then Dean of Radiology at Nagasaki University, threw himself into service to the countless victims of the bomb explosion, even though it meant deadly exposure to the radiation which eventually would cause his own death. While dying, he also wrote powerful books that became best-sellers in Japan. These included The Bells of Nagasaki , which resonated deeply with the Japanese people in their great suffering as it explores the Christian message of love and forgiveness. Nagai became a highly revered man and is considered a saint by many Japanese people.

"Christians and non-Christians alike were deeply moved by Nagai's faith in Christ that made him like Job of the in the midst of the nuclear wilderness he kept his heart in tranquility and peace, neither bearing resentment against any man nor cursing God."
Shusaku Endo , from the Foreword]]> 267 Paul Glynn 158617343X Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.63 1989 A Song for Nagasaki: The Story of Takashi Nagai a Scientist, Convert, and Survivor of the Atomic Bomb
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]]> <![CDATA[Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s]]> 2462838
Despite their horrific treatment and traumatic experiences, the American born children never gave up hope of returning to the United States. Upon attaining legal age, they badgered their parents to let them return home. Repatriation survivors who came back worked diligently to get their lives back together. Due to their sense of shame, few of them ever told their children about their tragic ordeal.

Decade of Betrayal recounts the injustice and suffering endured by the Mexican community during the 1930s. It focuses on the experiences of individuals forced to undergo the tragic ordeal of betrayal, deprivation, and adjustment. This revised edition also addresses the inclusion of the event in the educational curriculum, the issuance of a formal apology, and the question of fiscal remuneration.


Francisco Balderrama and Raymond Rodr�guez, the authors of Decade of Betrayal, the first expansive study of Mexican repatriation with perspectives from both sides of the border, claim that 1 million people of Mexican descent were driven from the United States during the 1930s due to raids, scare tactics, deportation, repatriation and public pressure. Of that conservative estimate, approximately 60 percent of those leaving were legal American citizens. Mexicans comprised nearly half of all those deported during the decade, although they made up less than 1 percent of the country's population. 'Americans, reeling from the economic disorientation of the depression, sought a convenient scapegoat, ' Balderrama and Rodr�guez wrote. 'They found it in the Mexican community.'--American History]]> 427 Francisco E. Balderrama 0826339735 Lucia 0 to-read 4.02 1995 Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s
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]]> Playground 205478762 The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.]]> 381 Richard Powers 1324086033 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.17 2024 Playground
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]]> <![CDATA[The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down]]> 36246457 The Times Top 10 Bestseller

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD

'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?'
The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships, in a beautiful book combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations. Haemin Sunim's simple messages - which he first wrote when he responded to requests for advice on social media - speak directly to the anxieties that have become part of modern life and remind us of the strength and joy that come from slowing down.

Hugely popular in Korea, Haemin Sunim is a Zen meditation teacher whose teachings transcend religion, borders and ages. With insight and compassion drawn from a life full of change, the bestselling monk succeeds at encouraging all of us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.]]> 267 Haemin Sunim 0241340667 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.12 2012 The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic]]> 175430 267 Gay Salisbury 0393325709 Lucia 5 4.16 2003 The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
author: Gay Salisbury
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day]]> 13149874 Buried in the Sky reveals their astonishing story for the first time.


Peter Zuckerman and Amanda Padoan explore the intersecting lives of Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama, following them from their villages high in the Himalaya to the slums of Kathmandu, across the glaciers of Pakistan to K2 Base Camp. When disaster strikes in the Death Zone, Chhiring finds Pasang stranded on an ice wall, without an axe, waiting to die. The rescue that follows has become the stuff of mountaineering legend.


At once a gripping, white-knuckled adventure and a rich exploration of Sherpa customs and culture, Buried in the Sky re-creates one of the most dramatic catastrophes in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective.]]> 286 Peter Zuckerman 0393079880 Lucia 5 4.18 2012 Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day
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]]> <![CDATA[Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)]]> 30241301 When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?

Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to be the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

]]> 406 Gregory Maguire Lucia 0 currently-reading 3.52 1995 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[50 Christmas Words: Slovak English Picture Dictionary]]> 33616147 Children's English-Slovak Picture Dictionary (Bilingual Picture Dictionary)
(Parallel Text English/Slovak) - Christmas Words Picture book
Fist Christmas words: Christmas Bilingual Picture Dictionary
This is a sweet bilingual book (English-Slovak) for children.
Delightful pictures based on Christmas are on every page.
It's a wonderful book to introduce babies and toddlers to Christmas.
As young children go through this picture book, they will learn to recognize the words and objects commonly used during Christmas.
Merry Christmas!
This is a great book for kids who are just learning to read. With just a few words on each page, this will be a wonderful tool to introduce new words.
Encourage your child by reminding them that they are great readers in Slovak!!
About the Author/Illustrator:
Sujatha Lalgudi is a Best Selling Children’s book author and illustrator of easy reader Kids books.

Where is the Baby - Bilingual English-Slovak Picture book (Slovak Edition)
My daddy is the best
Gifts for you, Mama
Jojo's Christmas Day
Where is Santa
A Lovely Day
What are you feeling, Dragon
Finger counting fun
Animal counting book
Where are the Easter eggs
Jojo's Easter egg hunt

]]> 27 Sujatha Lalgudi Lucia 5 5.00 50 Christmas Words: Slovak English Picture Dictionary
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]]> <![CDATA[Wafu Cooking: Everyday Recipes with Japanese Style: A Cookbook]]> 204641205 A bold, fresh new approach to Japanese 120-plus globally influenced recipes—from the author of Japanese Home Cooking

In this dazzling and wholly original cookbook, culinary authority Sonoko Sakai redefines what Japanese cooking can be. Wafu (literally “Japanese style�) food is fusion at its best, combining flavors, ingredients, and techniques from around the globe with a distinctly Japanese personality.

Wafu Cooking is a collection of recipes that captures the cultural exchange between Japan and the rest of the world in dishes that have come to Japan from abroad and been “wafu-ed� to suit local tastes, and in Japanese dishes that are reimagined through an American lens. From Dashi Cheese Grits with Honey Miso Butter, Collard Greens and Cabbage Miso Soup with Crispy Bacon, and Fish and Lotus Chips, to Caesar Salad with Aonori Croutons and Bonito Flakes, Shio Koji Marinated Roast Chicken, and Miso Apple Pie, these are recipes  that reflect—and celebrate—the multinational, interconnected way in which we all eat today. Sakai also introduces the essential building blocks of Japanese cuisine—dashi, miso, and soy sauce—that can be used to give any dish a wafu twist.

A book that reflects as much the author’s own journey—a life spent in New York, Los Angeles, Mexico, and elsewhere—as it does the foods of Japan, Wafu Cooking is an utterly unique, thoroughly modern cookbook.]]> 257 Sonoko Sakai 0593535286 Lucia 0 currently-reading 0.0 Wafu Cooking: Everyday Recipes with Japanese Style: A Cookbook
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]]> <![CDATA[A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon]]> 199798198
The Grand Canyon is an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many of whom are rendered speechless by its vast beauty, mystery, and complexity. Now, in A Walk in the Park , author Kevin Fedarko chronicles his year-long effort to find a 750-mile path along the length of the Grand Canyon, through a vertical wilderness suspended between the caprock along the rims of the abyss and the Colorado River, which flows along its bottom.

Consisting of countless cliffs and steep drops, plus immense stretches with almost no access to water, and the fact that not a single trail links its eastern doorway to its western terminus, this jewel of national parks is so challenging that when Fedarko departed fewer people had completed the journey in one single hike than had walked on the moon. The intensity of the effort required him to break his trip into several legs, each of which held staggering dangers and unexpected discoveries.

Accompanying Fedarko through this sublime yet perilous terrain is the award-winning photographer Peter McBride, who captures the stunning landscape in breathtaking photos. Together, they encounter long-lost Native American ruins, the remains of Old West prospectors� camps, present day tribal activists, and signs that commercial tourism is impinging on the park’s remote wildness.

An epic adventure, action-packed survival tale, and a deep spiritual journey, A Walk in the Park gives us an unprecedented glimpse of the crown jewel of America’s National an iconic landscape framed by ancient rock whose contours are recognized by all, but whose secrets and treasures are known to almost no one, and whose topography encompasses some of the harshest, least explored, most awe-inspiring terrain in the world.]]> 512 Kevin Fedarko 1501183052 Lucia 0 to-read 4.23 2024 A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
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]]> <![CDATA[Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters, #1)]]> 39754503 Dexter ٲThis Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market � until she’s betrayed.

Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet—her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.� Until her mom brings home a live specimen and Nita decides she wants out; dissecting a scared teenage boy is a step too far. But when she decides to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold in his place—because Nita herself isn’t exactly “human.� She has the ability to alter her biology, a talent that is priceless on the black market. Now on the other side of the bars, if she wants to escape, Nita must ask herself if she’s willing to become the worst kind of monster.]]> 371 Rebecca Schaeffer Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.14 2018 Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters, #1)
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]]> My Favorite Terrible Thing 183079537
Detective Nina Travers is so good at her job that she blends in like a benevolent Tom Ripley. She can be anyone. She can be no one. Nina wants to be someone . Her new case will finally get her noticed.

Bestselling author Claire Ross has disappeared from the Hamptons on her wedding day. How tragic that the author of an epic romance that captured the heart, soul, and imagination of the world should suddenly vanish on the happiest day of her life. Claire’s distraught family and friends, her mystified fiancé, and her zealous online fans all have their theories―from the sinister to the hopeful. Nina’s job is to find the truth, and she’s pursuing an angle that no one else has explored. She’s looking for a trail of clues in Claire’s novel.

Reading between its haunting lines, Nina follows a spiraling path of secret love, obsession, and death. What Nina finds is so shocking even she never saw it coming.]]> 285 Madeleine Henry 1662517459 Lucia 0 currently-reading 3.53 2024 My Favorite Terrible Thing
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]]> <![CDATA[Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i]]> 56952555 448 Hokulani K. Aikau 1478007206 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.57 2019 Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i
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]]> <![CDATA[The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics]]> 16158542
It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys� own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.]]> 404 Daniel James Brown 067002581X Lucia 5 4.37 2013 The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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]]> <![CDATA[Kintsugi Wellness: The Japanese Art of Nourishing Mind, Body, and Spirit]]> 35068723
The 16 Most Exciting Cookbooks Coming Out in 2018--Brit + CoWhere we come from is who we are. And Candice Kumai’s Japanese heritage has guided her journey back to health at every turn. Now, in Kintsugi Wellness, Candice shares what she’s learned and guides us through her favorite Japanese traditions and practices for cultivating inner strength and living a gracious life, interwoven with dozens of recipes for healthy, Japanese-inspired cuisine. Kintsugi Wellness provides the tools we all need to reclaim the art of living well. ]]> 331 Candice Kumai 0062669869 Lucia 0 currently-reading 3.73 Kintsugi Wellness: The Japanese Art of Nourishing Mind, Body, and Spirit
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]]> <![CDATA[A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)]]> 58132544
As Jack and Adaira reluctantly work together, they find they make better allies than rivals as their partnership turns into something more. But with each passing song, it becomes apparent the trouble with the spirits is far more sinister than they first expected, and an older, darker secret about Cadence lurks beneath the surface, threatening to undo them all.]]> 480 Rebecca Ross 0063055988 Lucia 0 to-read 4.06 2022 A River Enchanted (Elements of Cadence, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)]]> 201345 376 Brian Jacques 0441001866 Lucia 0 redwall 4.16 1993 Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)
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]]> The Lily of Life 20877098 146 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.54 1913 The Lily of Life
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]]> Alphonse Mucha 31673065 "The mission of art is to express each nation's aesthetic values in accordance with the beauty of its soul. The mission of the artist is to teach people to love that beauty." --Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha was an extraordinarily prolific and versatile artist who made his mark in the diverse fields of design--including posters, jewelery, interior decoration, theater, and packaging and product designs-- as well as in painting, book illustration, sculpture, and photography. He is one of the best-known Czech artists to wide international audiences today and rose to fame in fin-de-siecle Paris with his elegant designs for theater posters for Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous French actress of the time, and decorative panels (panneaux decoratifs) featuring gracefully posed women. For those posters, Mucha created a distinctive style---le style Mucha---characterized by harmonious compositions, sinuous forms, organic lines, and a muted palette, which became synony- mous with the newly emerging decorative style of the time--Art Nouveau. By the time of the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, Mucha had become a leading figure in this decorative-art movement, and he defined the look of the era.

The catalog explores the development of Mucha's career and overall achievements as a multifaceted and visionary artist. It is divided into six sections highlighting Mucha's personality as a Bohemian; a picture maker for people; a cosmopolitan; a mystic; a patriot; and a philosopher.

This is a companion to the exhibition at Complesso de Vittoriano in Rome, Italy.]]> 248 Tomoko Sato 8857232433 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.34 2018 Alphonse Mucha
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]]> <![CDATA[Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness]]> 36896812 The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness

Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, is the Japanese secret to health and happiness, and it's right in your own backyard. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder. But studies have shown that backing away from your computer screen and stepping outside to spend mindful, intentional time in nature can reduce your stress levels and blood pressure, strengthen your immune and cardiovascular systems, and boost your energy, mood, creativity, and concentration. It can even help you live longer: the phytoncides, or chemical compounds, produced by trees can help your body produce more of the white blood cells that fight cancer.

Forest bathing is more than just a walk in the woods. Unlike hiking, there is no particular destination and no physical exertion required; it is an exercise for the mind, not the body. By observing how a tree sways in the wind, running your hand over its bark, or noticing the particular citrusy scent of a forest, you will learn how to lose yourself in the beauty of your surroundings, leave everyday stress behind you, and reach a place of greater calm and wellness. Illustrated with more than 100 color photographs, this beautiful guide to forest bathing will introduce you to the healing power of trees.]]> 320 Qing Li 052555985X Lucia 5 3.99 2018 Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
author: Qing Li
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.99
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I purchased this book several years ago when it was recommended at a medical conference I was attending. I finally had the time to read it, and honestly, it was hard to put it down. This book provides a great introduction to shinrin-yoku with the science to back it up. But it’s not a dry, clinical book. The text is easy to read, divided up with photos so that reading the book feels almost like a meditation in and of itself. I appreciate the suggested exercises in the later parts of the book, and I came away feeling motivated to get out and do more regular forest bathing.
]]> <![CDATA[Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know]]> 199700435
“THIS. This is the right book for right now. Yes, learning requires focus. But, unlearning and relearning requires much more—it requires choosing courage over comfort. In Think Again , Adam Grant weaves together research and storytelling to help us build the intellectual and emotional muscle we need to stay curious enough about the world to actually change it. I’ve never felt so hopeful about what I don’t know.�
—Brené Brown, Ph.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Originals , Give and Take , and the forthcoming Hidden Potential examines the critical art of learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. We think too much like preachers defending our sacred beliefs, prosecutors proving the other side wrong, and politicians campaigning for approval--and too little like scientists searching for truth. Intelligence is no cure, and it can even be a being good at thinking can make us worse at rethinking. The brighter we are, the blinder to our own limitations we can become.

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take , he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.]]> 320 Adam M. Grant 1984878123 Lucia 5 4.22 2021 Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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]]> The Cook of Castamar 147982687 NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES

The Duke of Castamar was once a noble figure who played a crucial role in his family's royal council. But ever since his wife's tragic death, he's been living in mourning, forgoing his noble duties.

Clara, born into gentility but hard-up since the death of her beloved father, has taken to solitude in her grief, rarely leaving the confines of her beloved kitchen. But she must find a way to make a living, which is how she finds herself travelling to the Duke's great home to work in the kitchen...

Clara attempts to hide her secret skills, but when she's greeted by the chaos of the Castamar kitchens, she cannot resist performing a makeover � much to the disdain of formidable housekeeper Ursula.

And when the Duke learns of Clara's talents, he soon finds himself falling for her. Meanwhile, there are people masquerading as his friends who threaten to bring him down... In a world of royal duties, sordid affairs and complicated politics, will there be chance for the unlikely romance to blossom?]]> 633 Fernando J. Múñez 1803285583 Lucia 5 4.10 2019 The Cook of Castamar
author: Fernando J. Múñez
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Curse in Kyoto: A Gripping Mystery Thriller, Hunter and Higashi Book 1 (The Hunter and Higashi Mysteries)]]> 210395113 Something is happening at the British School of Kyoto.

A phantom geisha is haunting the halls, a star student is missing, and the campus is covered in mysterious symbols. Why? It’s all because of an ill-fated decision to host a supposedly cursed museum exhibit.

Meet Jessica Hunter, a seasoned globetrotter at sixteen, now reluctantly navigating the corridors of BSK after being uprooted by her parents to yet another country. But when eerie events at the school seize her attention, she forms an unlikely alliance with Kenta Higashi, the football team captain and former friend of the missing student. Together, they plunge into a perilous quest for answers, unravelling a web of rebellion and vengeance.

Who could be the source of this deadly vendetta? And as the danger escalates, can Jessica and Kenta overcome their differences to save the school? This gripping mystery-thriller unveils a dynamic crime-solving duo in a tale that will keep suspense lovers eagerly turning the pages.

What people are “A Curse in Kyoto is the best crime story I've read in months� block off a good amount of time to read, because you won't be able to put it down!� Reedsy Discovery Review“I couldn’t put this book down!...The story was fast-paced, suspenseful, gripping and the unfolding of the plot was done so beautifully.� Booksprout review“An immersive and captivating read.� Book Nerdection review]]> 518 S.J. Cullen 1776499441 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.13 A Curse in Kyoto: A Gripping Mystery Thriller, Hunter and Higashi Book 1 (The Hunter and Higashi Mysteries)
author: S.J. Cullen
name: Lucia
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little White Book: Six-minute reflections on the Resurrection Narrative according to Matthew: Spend some quiet time with the Lord]]> 210128146
Conceived and developed by the late Bishop Ken Untener of the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan, the Little Black Book debuted in 1999 as a Lenten reflection and quickly became a staple for individuals and congregations throughout the midwest. As demand grew, so too did Little Books, which now includes the Little Blue Book for the Advent/Christmas season and the Little White Book for the Easter season, along with titles for Stewardship and children, and other writings.

Each Little Book is faithfully written to correspond with seasonal themes and features daily scriptural-based lessons along with interesting facts about Catholic traditions, saints, notable people and symbolism.

Today millions of people rely on Little Books to enhance their prayer practice and provide spiritual inspiration. All proceeds from Little Books go toward serving the needs of the people and communities of the 11-county Diocese of Saginaw.]]> 193 Ken Untener Lucia 5 4.86 The Little White Book: Six-minute reflections on the Resurrection Narrative according to Matthew: Spend some quiet time with the Lord
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.86
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]]> Lovers at the Museum 204820050
Love, be it wild or tender, often defies logic. In fact, at times, the only rationale behind the instant connection of two souls is plain magic.

Bibiña Aranda, runaway bride, wakes up in the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao still wearing her wedding dress, draped in the loving arms of a naked man whose name she doesn’t know. She and the man with no clothes, Indar Zubieta, attempt to explain to the authorities how they got there. It’s a story of love at first sight and experience beyond compare, one that involves a dreamlike journey through the museum.

But the lovers� transcendent night bears no resemblance to the crude one Detective Larramendi attempts to reconstruct. And no amount of fantastical descriptions can convince the irritated inspector of the truth.

Allende’s dreamy short story has the power to transport readers in any language, leaving them to ponder the wonders of love long after the story’s over.]]> 25 Isabel Allende 1662522622 Lucia 5 3.47 2024 Lovers at the Museum
author: Isabel Allende
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2024
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Slavic Myths (The World's Greatest Myths and Legends)]]> 61317852
With a new introduction, this collection of Slavic tales is based on the oral storytelling traditions of the peoples of Eastern Europe, from the Polish and the Slovaks to the Macedonians, Czechs and Serbians, with roots in pagan folklore and influenced by the Viking traders who settled in Kiev in the early middle ages. Stories abound with mountains, magic palaces and temples and such incredible tales as 'The King of the Toads', 'Vassilissa the Cunning', and 'The Tsar of the Sea' and 'The Feather of Bright Finist the Falcon'.

FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and myth, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.]]> 256 Jake Jackson 1804173312 Lucia 0 currently-reading 3.27 Slavic Myths (The World's Greatest Myths and Legends)
author: Jake Jackson
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.27
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]]> Krakatit 428287 Karel Čapek 0685513386 Lucia 0 to-read 3.74 1922 Krakatit
author: Karel Čapek
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.74
book published: 1922
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)]]> 816443 A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot"

Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam� and “Eve� by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant]]> 84 Karel Čapek 0141182083 Lucia 0 3.76 1920 R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
author: Karel Čapek
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1920
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Little Black Book for Lent: Spend some quiet time with the Lord (2024)]]> 204261679
Conceived and developed by the late Bishop Ken Untener of the Catholic Diocese of Saginaw, Michigan, the Little Black Book debuted in 1999 as a Lenten reflection and quickly became a staple for individuals and congregations throughout the midwest. As demand grew, so too did Little Books, which now includes the Little Blue Book for the Advent/Christmas season and the Little White Book for the Easter season, along with titles for Stewardship and children, and other writings. Each Little Book is faithfully written to correspond with seasonal themes and features daily scriptural-based lessons along with interesting facts about Catholic traditions, saints, notable people and symbolism.

Today millions of people rely on Little Books to enhance their prayer practice and provide spiritual inspiration. All proceeds from Little Books go toward serving the needs of the people and communities of the 11-county Diocese of Saginaw.]]> 196 Ken Untener Lucia 5 4.85 Little Black Book for Lent: Spend some quiet time with the Lord (2024)
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.85
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]]> Madame Butterfly 24077528 54 John Luther Long 6050336709 Lucia 0 currently-reading 3.95 1904 Madame Butterfly
author: John Luther Long
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1904
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]]> <![CDATA[Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI]]> 193388249
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And this was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.

As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.]]> 338 David Grann 0593470834 Lucia 0 4.12 2017 Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
author: David Grann
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> The Portrait 31697662
The Portrait is a Gothic fantasy about Victoria Frost, an author who develops an unhealthy obsession for her character. As events unfold, her obsessions begin to turn on her, and force Victoria to question her sanity. Is she simply slipping into madness, or are there other factors at play?

The Portrait features a mixture of contemporary and historical scenes brought forward as Victoria explores the world of her muse. Using both prose and art, every scene yields a new piece of the puzzle, which provides insights on the origins of her character’s portrait, and the model within.

Discover how a vision from the past becomes a writer’s deadly obsession.]]> 251 Evelyn Chartres Lucia 0 currently-reading 2.78 2015 The Portrait
author: Evelyn Chartres
name: Lucia
average rating: 2.78
book published: 2015
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]]> White Rose, Black Forest 35989362 An Amazon Charts bestseller.

In the shadows of World War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers.

December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.

That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman’s true identity. Their tenuous bond becomes as inseparable as it is dangerous. Hunted by the Gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever?]]> 273 Eoin Dempsey 1503952274 Lucia 5 4.30 2018 White Rose, Black Forest
author: Eoin Dempsey
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[True of Heart (Regency Shakespeare, #3)]]> 54483595 Love lessons have never gone so awry...

Miss Ruth Hawthorn helps support her fatherless family the only way she can: doling out love advice in a local newspaper column under an assumed name, The Swan. When she receives a lucrative request for an in-person consultation from someone signed "O," her brother persuades her to go to London with him, teaching him what he needs to know in order to survive the short appointment. But when "O" moves up the time of the rendez-vous and Ruth's brother is nowhere to be found, she is forced to take matters into her own hands.

Philip Trent, Lord Oxley, knows precisely which woman will best fill his late mother's shoes as the viscountess—now all he needs is a little help winning her over, swarmed as she is by suitors. Ashamed of his ineptitude with women but determined to succeed, Philip secretly enlists help. The youthful, bespectacled Swan seems like the last person capable of providing such help, but Philip finds in the young man both a friend and a confidant, with a surprising understanding of love.

Philip's choice of woman is proving more difficult than anticipated, though, and Ruth's ongoing disguise and frequent meetings with him are taxing her conscience—and her heart. With more secrets than Ruth can manage and a heart long since lost to her most important client, she faces the threat of discovery and ruin—a prospect somehow eclipsed by the heartbreak she will face when those secrets are inevitably discovered by the man she loves. True of Heart is a sweet Regency retelling of Shakespeare's classic, Twelfth Night.

Other books in this series:

A Foolish Heart, Book One

My Wild Heart, Book Two]]> Martha Keyes Lucia 0 4.48 2020 True of Heart (Regency Shakespeare, #3)
author: Martha Keyes
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.48
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]]> Split 122146114 Nazis, spies, romance, and murder collide in prewar eastern Europe in a mesmerizing historical novel by the award-winning author of Oliva’s Garden.

It’s 1936. The seaside-resort village of Split on the Adriatic coast bustles. The tourist spots are booming, passenger steamers dot the harbor, and Jewish émigrés have found tenuous refuge from persecution. But as war in Europe looms, Split is also a nest of spies, fascists, and smugglers—and now, a locale suspiciously scouted by a German Reich film crew. Then one summer morning it becomes the scene of a murder investigation when a corpse is found entangled in fishing nets in the port.

With so many suspects from all walks of life and with a myriad of motives at a time when tensions are boiling over, crime superintendent Mario Bulat has only rumors to follow. Political archrivals will take advantage of the crime. Local lovers will become embroiled in it. And a propagandist filmmaker will find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. War is coming, and for some in Split, it’s already here.]]> 262 Alida Bremer 1662507038 Lucia 5 2.63 Split
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name: Lucia
average rating: 2.63
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]]> <![CDATA[Little Blue Book for Advent: Spend some quiet time with the Lord]]> 197791871
Each Little Book is faithfully written to correspond with seasonal themes and features daily scriptural-based lessons along with interesting facts about Catholic traditions, saints, notable people and symbolism. Today millions of people rely on Little Books to enhance their prayer practice and provide spiritual inspiration. All proceeds from Little Books go toward serving the needs of the people and communities of the 11-county Diocese of Saginaw.]]> 141 Ken Untener Lucia 5 4.84 Little Blue Book for Advent: Spend some quiet time with the Lord
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.84
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]]> <![CDATA[The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue]]> 50623864
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.]]> 448 Victoria E. Schwab 0765387565 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.16 2020 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
author: Victoria E. Schwab
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice]]> 19432225 A collection of twelve traditional tales from around the world that honor the "return of the light" that takes place on the winter solsticeThe winter solstice, the day the "sun stands still," marks the longest night and the shortest day of the year, and it comes either on December 20th or 21st. Celebrations honoring the winter solstice as a moment of transition and renewal date back thousands of years and occur among many peoples on every continent. The Return of the Light makes an ideal companion for everyone who carries on this tradition, no matter what their faith. Storyteller Carolyn McVickar Edwards retells twelve traditional tales-from North America, China, Scandinavia, India, Africa, South America, Europe, and Polynesia-that honor this magical moment. These are stories that will renew our wonder of the miracle of rebirth and the power of transition from darkness into light.]]> 194 Carolyn McVickar Edwards 0786737824 Lucia 5 4.14 2000 The Return of the Light: Twelve Tales from Around the World for the Winter Solstice
author: Carolyn McVickar Edwards
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2000
rating: 5
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]]> The Devil and the Dark Water 53543088 An Amazon Best Book of the Year � 2020!

"Compulsively readable."�New York Times Book Review

The extraordinary new thriller from Stuart Turton, author of the bestselling murder mystery The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award.

A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist.

It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Travelling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent.

But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A twice-dead leper stalks the decks. Strange symbols appear on the sails. Livestock is slaughtered. Anyone could be to blame. Even a demon.

And then three passengers are marked for death, including Samuel.

With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent can solve a mystery that connects every passenger. A mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board.

For fans of Steven King, The Devil and the Dark Water brings a chilling new spin to the Sherlock Holmes detective duo in a thriller of supernatural horror, occult suspicion, and paranormal mystery on the high seas.]]> 577 Stuart Turton 1728206030 Lucia 5 3.92 2020 The Devil and the Dark Water
author: Stuart Turton
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle]]> 40033006
There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.

We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.

Understood? Then let's begin . . .

Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others . . .

The most inventive debut of the year twists together a mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave listeners guessing until the very last second.]]> 482 Stuart Turton Lucia 5 3.78 2018 The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
author: Stuart Turton
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> The Lover 181478167 During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, in this wickedly sensuous short story by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

Judith knows her sister, Alice, is the pretty one—but that doesn’t stop her from wishing for love. When a handsome and gentlemanly hunter appears in their village, seeking lodging from the cold, she believes her lover has finally arrived. He does, indeed, choose to stay—but as Alice’s husband, not her own. When another stranger comes out of the woods, looking every bit a vagrant, he offers Judith something mysterious and enticingly strange. Against reason and decency, she welcomes both men into her life, in different ways. As forbidden longings ensnare each of them, an unrelenting winter storm and an evasive wolf on the prowl have everyone on edge…and ravenous. By spring thaw, will any of their hungers be satisfied?]]> 43 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 1662517157 Lucia 5 3.80 2023 The Lover
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2023
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Haunted Prague: Stories of Spirits, Sorcerers, and the Supernatural]]> 53056414 226 Michele Patrick 1572161205 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.43 Haunted Prague: Stories of Spirits, Sorcerers, and the Supernatural
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name: Lucia
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House]]> 38139979 A masterfully told and immersive narrative about the last hundred years of European history, as seen through an extraordinary mansion � and the lives of the people who called it home

When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past.

From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that have transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron Otto Petschek, who build the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador, whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism � and did just that as US ambassador in 1989.

Weaving in the life of Eisen’s own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, The Last Palace tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the endurance of liberal democracy.]]> 416 Norman Eisen 0451495780 Lucia 5 4.14 2018 The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
author: Norman Eisen
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)]]> 16307
That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the 'evil presence.' But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer!]]> 336 Agatha Christie 0007120680 Lucia 0 3.56 1969 Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
author: Agatha Christie
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1969
rating: 0
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]]> Horse 59109077 A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history

Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.

New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson, a gallery owner celebrated for taking risks on edgy contemporary painters, becomes obsessed with a nineteenth-century equestrian oil painting of mysterious provenance.

Washington, DC, 2019. Jess, a Smithsonian scientist from Australia, and Theo, a Nigerian-American art historian, find themselves unexpectedly connected through their shared interest in the horse--one studying the stallion's bones for clues to his power and endurance, the other uncovering the lost history of the unsung Black horsemen who were critical to his racing success.

Based on the remarkable true story of the record-breaking thoroughbred Lexington, Horse is a novel of art and science, love and obsession, and our unfinished reckoning with racism.]]> 401 Geraldine Brooks 0399562966 Lucia 5 4.17 2022 Horse
author: Geraldine Brooks
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> The Sandman: Book Five 61822765 Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman continues here, filled with the art from the medium's most gifted talent.

Sandman Book Five collects Sandman Midnight Theatre, Sandman Endless Nights, and Sandman: The Dream Hunters!

Sandman Midnight Theatre takes place in the late 1930's. A mysterious suicide leads the Golden Age Sandman (Wesley Dodds) to a dark circle of mystics known as the Order of Ancient Mysteries. The Order holds a number of disturbing secrets...and the greatest of these is Morpheus, the imprisoned Dream King!

In Sandman Endless Nights Neil Gaiman explores the seven brothers and sisters of the Endless, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction.

Sandman: The Dream Hunters is a love story, set in ancient Japan. Telling the story of a humble young monk and a magical, shape-changing fox who find themselves romantically drawn together. As their love blooms, the fox learns of a devilish plot by a group of demons to steal the monk's life. With the aid of Morpheus, the King of All Night's Dreamings, the fox must use all of her cunning and creative thinking to foil this evil scheme and save the man that she loves.]]> 500 Neil Gaiman 1779521510 Lucia 0 4.31 The Sandman: Book Five
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]]> Ghost Variations 35343891
London, 1933. Dabbling in the once-fashionable "glass game" - a Ouija board - the famous Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi is amazed to receive a message supposedly from the spirit of the great composer Robert Schumann, asking her to find and play his long-suppressed violin concerto. Jelly, formerly muse to many composers, hesitates to pursue this strange summons, eager to devote herself to charity concerts for the unemployed of the Depression. But soon her sister Adila and her friend Erik Palmstierna, both avid spiritualists, hear of the incident and the die is cast. Having lost the love of her life in World War I and now facing the death of another close friend, Jelly sets out to find not only a missing concerto, but also a form of redemption.

But news of the concerto's existence spreads to Berlin, where the manuscript is held, and the higher echelons of the Third Reich quickly conceive of a propaganda use for the work. Jelly, trapped in a race to the first performance, must confront forces that threaten her own state of mind.

Facing a world slipping into the insanity of fascism and war, a composer who suffered a terrible breakdown just after he wrote the concerto, and her own life and career sliding out of control, for Jelly saving the concerto comes to mean saving herself.

"Schumann's wonderful violin concerto has a tragic history unlike any other piece of music. In this splendid new novel Jessica Duchen manages to find the fine balance between facts and fiction. Her book reads like a thriller, yet it's also a tribute to great music and musicians." -- Sir András Schiff]]> 336 Jessica Duchen 1783529822 Lucia 4 3.78 2016 Ghost Variations
author: Jessica Duchen
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> One for My Enemy 61353766 A thrilling story of rival witch families in New York City, from New York Times bestselling author and internet phenomenon Olivie Blake.

In modern-day Manhattan where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal ventures.

On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters � each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless � and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants, known only as Baba Yaga. On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss known as Koschei the Deathless, whose community extortion ventures dominate the shadows of magical Manhattan.

After twelve years of tenuous co-existence, a change in one family’s interests causes a rift in the existing stalemate. When bad blood brings both families to the precipice of disaster, fate intervenes with a chance encounter, and in the aftershocks of a resurrected conflict, everyone must choose a side. As each of the siblings struggles to stake their claim, fraying loyalties threaten to rot each side from the inside out.

If, that is, the enmity between empires doesn’t destroy them first.

Also by Olivie Blake
Alone with You in the Ether
Masters of Death
The Atlas Six
The Atlas Paradox]]> 432 Olivie Blake 1250892430 Lucia 0 to-read 3.69 2019 One for My Enemy
author: Olivie Blake
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.69
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ten Thousand Doors of January]]> 43521657
Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.]]> 374 Alix E. Harrow 0316421995 Lucia 5 3.99 2019 The Ten Thousand Doors of January
author: Alix E. Harrow
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Maus, #1-2)]]> 331692 Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history� (The New Yorker).

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust� (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.]]> 296 Art Spiegelman Lucia 0 4.62 1980 The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Maus, #1-2)
author: Art Spiegelman
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.62
book published: 1980
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]]> The Starless Sea 43575115 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea.

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life.]]> 498 Erin Morgenstern 038554121X Lucia 0 3.82 2019 The Starless Sea
author: Erin Morgenstern
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little White Book for Easter 2023: Six-minute reflections on the Resurrection Narratives according to Luke]]> 123520420 115 Ken Untener Lucia 5 4.73 The Little White Book for Easter 2023: Six-minute reflections on the Resurrection Narratives according to Luke
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Black Book for Lent 2023: Six-minute meditations on the Passion according to Matthew]]> 95583738 134 Ken Untener 173444049X Lucia 5 4.85 The Little Black Book for Lent 2023: Six-minute meditations on the Passion according to Matthew
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.85
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]]> <![CDATA[Bridge to the Sun: A Memoir of Love and War]]> 17013886 Bridge to the Sun is a beautiful, tender, and moving love story -- the true report of an international and interracial marriage of a an American girl from the mountains of Tennessee and a Japanese diplomat. They were married in 1931, just as tension between their two countries was mounting, and their constant dream was of a "rainbow across the Pacific," a bridge of peace between Japan and the United States.

In the following ten years, Mr. Terasaki's service with the Japanese Foreign Office took them to Japan, China (where their daughter Mariko was born), Cuba, and Washington, where they were living at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor. As head of Japanese intelligence in the Western Hemisphere, Terasaki took enormous personal risks to avert war between the two countries. Mrs. Terasaki describes with rare perception and fine humor her months of internment with the Japanese diplomatic corps at Hot Springs and White Sulphur Springs, the long voyage back to Japan via Africa on the famed exchange ship Gripsholm, and the struggle of the war years in Japan which were marked by illness and near starvation. After the surrender, Mr. Terasaki, a courageous and brilliant man who had risked everything to avert the war, was appointed liaison between the Emperor and General MacArthur, and in this capacity, he made a lasting contribution to post-war relations between the two countries.]]> 242 Gwen Terasaki 0615432727 Lucia 4 4.11 1957 Bridge to the Sun: A Memoir of Love and War
author: Gwen Terasaki
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.11
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rating: 4
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]]> The Salt Eaters 157929 295 Toni Cade Bambara 0704338823 Lucia 0 to-read 3.89 1980 The Salt Eaters
author: Toni Cade Bambara
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1980
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]]> <![CDATA[The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi: 12 Weeks to a Healthy Body, Strong Heart, and Sharp Mind (Harvard Health Publications)]]> 15798818
Dr. Peter M. Wayne, a longtime Tai Chi teacher and a researcher at Harvard Medical School, developed and tested protocols similar to the simplified program he includes in this book, which is suited to people of all ages, and can be done in just a few minutes a day. This book includes:

   • The basic program, illustrated by more than 50 photographs
   • Practical tips for integrating Tai Chi into everyday activities
   • An introduction to the traditional principles of Tai Chi
   • Up-to-date summaries of the research literature on the health benefits of Tai Chi
   • How Tai Chi can enhance work productivity, creativity, and sports performance
   • And much more]]> 352 Peter M. Wayne 1590309421 Lucia 0 currently-reading 3.91 2013 The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi: 12 Weeks to a Healthy Body, Strong Heart, and Sharp Mind (Harvard Health Publications)
author: Peter M. Wayne
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]]> <![CDATA[Death and the Maiden (Mistress of the Art of Death #5)]]> 50622297 At long last, the much-anticipated final installment in Ariana Franklin’s popular Mistress of the Art of Death historical mystery series, set in Norman England.

England. 1191. After the death of her friend and patron, King Henry II, Adelia Aguilar, England’s vaunted Mistress of the Art of Death, is living comfortably in retirement and training her daughter, Allie, to carry on her craft—sharing the practical knowledge of anatomy, forensics, and sleuthing that catches murderers. Allie is already a skilled healer, with a particular gift for treating animals. But the young woman is nearly twenty, and her father, Rowley, Bishop of Saint Albans, and his patron, the formidable Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, have plans to marry Allie to an influential husband . . . if they can find a man who will appreciate a woman with such unusual gifts.


When a friend in Cambridgeshire falls ill, Allie is sent to Ely, where her path will cross with Lord Peverill, a young aristocrat who would be a most suitable match for the young healer. But when Allie arrives, all is chaos. A village girl has disappeared—and she’s not the first. Over the past few months, several girls from the villages surrounding Ely have vanished. When the body of one of the missing is discovered, Allie manages to examine the remains before burial. The results lead her to suspect that a monstrous predator is on the loose. Will her training and her stubborn pursuit of the truth help her find the killer . . . or make her the next victim?

A richly detailed, twisty thriller, Death and the Maiden is historical mystery at its finest—and a superb final episode in Ariana Franklin’s much-loved, much-acclaimed series. ]]> 402 Ariana Franklin 006256238X Lucia 0 to-read 3.64 2020 Death and the Maiden (Mistress of the Art of Death #5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Revised and Expanded)]]> 366924
In addition to the contents of the original volume, this edition brings back into print the following works:
- Death Rides the Rails to Poston
- Eucalyptus
- A Fire in Fontana
- Florentine Gardens]]> 178 Hisaye Yamamoto 0813529530 Lucia 0 to-read 3.90 1988 Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Revised and Expanded)
author: Hisaye Yamamoto
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[The Jewel Of Seven Stars - The Most Complete Version Ever Published: Includes The Endings From The Original First Edition And The Revised Second Edition]]> 6541680 The story is about an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy.
When The Jewel of Seven Stars was first released in 1903 the publishers received a great deal of criticism from both critics and readers because of its gruesome ending. Shortly before his death in 1912 when Stoker attempted to republish the book he was told that he would have to change the ending if he didn't want it to go out of publication. As a result, Stoker removed Chapter XVI "Powers - Old and New" and gave the book a new and happier ending. For many years the original ending was unavailable to most readers. Now, for the first time ever, we have included the endings from the first and second editions in this volume.]]> 206 Bram Stoker 143828747X Lucia 0 to-read 3.67 1903 The Jewel Of Seven Stars - The Most Complete Version Ever Published: Includes The Endings From The Original First Edition And The Revised Second Edition
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> Found Wanting 9605300 Follow Marc and Brian as they respond to the constant 911 calls, often tragic, sometimes hilarious. Finding himself in the midst of sickness, ignorance and hopelessness, Brian tries to keep his positive outlook, but how will he face his deepening suspicions at the strange deaths occurring in his ambulance?]]> 134 Sean Fitzmorris 125724079X Lucia 0 to-read 4.38 2010 Found Wanting
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]]> The Shortest Day 43984188 In this seasonal treasure, Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper's beloved poem heralds the winter solstice, illuminated by Caldecott Honoree Carson Ellis's strikingly resonant illustrations.

So the shortest day came,
and the year died . . .

As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again. Written for a theatrical production that has become a ritual in itself, Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day" captures the magic behind the returning of the light, the yearning for traditions that connect us with generations that have gone before—and the hope for peace that we carry into the future. Richly illustrated by Carson Ellis with a universality that spans the centuries, this beautiful book evokes the joy and community found in the ongoing mystery of life when we celebrate light, thankfulness, and festivity at a time of rebirth. Welcome Yule!]]> 32 Susan Cooper 0763686980 Lucia 0 3.93 2019 The Shortest Day
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]]> <![CDATA[Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku]]> 58626109 118 Yoshifumi Miyazaki 1783254769 Lucia 0 3.36 Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows]]> 56897474 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koenig casts light into lonely corners of human experience…An enchanting book. � —The Washington Post

A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now.

Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.� Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.� Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.�

If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig set out to fill the gaps in our language of emotion. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows “creates beautiful new words that we need but do not yet have,� says John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars. By turns poignant, relatable, and mind-bending, the definitions include whimsical etymologies drawn from languages around the world, interspersed with otherworldly collages and lyrical essays that explore forgotten corners of the human condition—from “astrophe,� the longing to explore beyond the planet Earth, to “zenosyne,� the sense that time keeps getting faster.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is for anyone who enjoys a shift in perspective, pondering the ineffable feelings that make up our lives. With a gorgeous package and beautiful illustrations throughout, this is the perfect gift for creatives, word nerds, and human beings everywhere.]]> 272 John Koenig 1501153641 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.47 2021 The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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]]> <![CDATA[Quick Calm: Easy Meditations to Short-Circuit Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience]]> 54670255 184 Jennifer R. Wolkin 1684036089 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.20 Quick Calm: Easy Meditations to Short-Circuit Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroscience
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]]> The Haunted Looking Glass 275470
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD, "The Empty House"
W.F. HARVEY, "August Heat"
CHARLES DICKENS, "The Signalman"
L.P. HARTLEY, "A Visitor from Down Under"
R.H. MALDEN, "The Thirteenth Tree"
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, "The Body-Snatcher"
E. NESBIT, "Man-Size in Marble"
BRAM STOKER, "The Judge's House"
TOM HOOD, "The Shadow of a Shade"
W.W. JACOBS, "The Monkey's Paw,"
WILKIE COLLINS, "The Dream Woman"
M.R. JAMES, "Casting the Runes"]]> 254 Edward Gorey 0940322684 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.04 1959 The Haunted Looking Glass
author: Edward Gorey
name: Lucia
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]]> Zuleika Dobson 778463
Nobody could predict the consequences when ravishing Zuleika Dobson arrives at Oxford, to visit her grandfather, the college warden. Formerly a governess, she has landed on the occupation of prestidigitator, and thanks to her overwhelming beauty—and to a lesser extent her professional talents—she takes the town by storm, gaining admittance to her grandfather's college. It is there, at the institution inspired by Beerbohm's own alma mater, that she falls in love with the Duke of Dorset, who duly adores her in return. Ever aware of appearances, however, Zuleika breaks the Duke's heart when she decides that she must abandon the match.

The epidemic of heartache that proceeds to overcome the academic town makes for some of the best comic writing in the history of English literature.]]> 252 Max Beerbohm 037575248X Lucia 0 currently-reading 3.53 1911 Zuleika Dobson
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]]> Nights at the Circus 873920
Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.]]> 350 Angela Carter 0099388618 Lucia 5 3.77 1984 Nights at the Circus
author: Angela Carter
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1984
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Seasons 2022-2023: Six-minute Reflections on the First Readings for Daily Mass During the Advent/Christmas Season]]> 62925033 115 Ken Untener 1734440481 Lucia 5 4.78 The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Seasons 2022-2023: Six-minute Reflections on the First Readings for Daily Mass During the Advent/Christmas Season
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name: Lucia
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]]> A Daughter of the Samurai 395534 336 Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto 0898753481 Lucia 5 3.98 1925 A Daughter of the Samurai
author: Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1925
rating: 5
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]]> The Sandman: Overture 18310944 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story

Twenty-five years since The Sandman first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman's legendary series is back in a deluxe edition!

The Sandman: Overture heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman's return to the art form that made him famous, ably abetted by artistic luminary JH Williams III (Batwoman, Promethea), whose lush, widescreen images provide an epic scope to The Sandman's origin story. From the birth of a galaxy to the moment that Morpheus is captured, THE Sandman: Overture will feature cameo appearances by fan-favorite characters such as The Corinthian, Merv Pumpkinhead and, of course, the Dream King's siblings: Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny.]]> 224 Neil Gaiman 1401248969 Lucia 0 4.03 2015 The Sandman: Overture
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average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sandman: The Dream Hunters]]> 166580
Like most fables, the story begins with a wager between two jealous animals, a fox and a badger: which of them can drive a young monk from his solitary temple? The winner will make the temple into a new fox or badger home. But as the fox adopts the form of a woman to woo the monk from his hermitage, she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, in far away Kyoto, the wealthy Master of Yin-Yang, the onmyoji, is plagued by his fears and seeks tranquility in his command of sorcery. He learns of the monk and his inner peace; he dispatches demons to plague the monk in his dreams and eventually kill him to bring his peace to the onmyoji. The fox overhears the demons on their way to the monk and begins her struggle to save the man whom at first she so envied.

Dream Hunters is a beautiful package. From the ink-brush painted endpapers to the luminous page layouts--including Amano's gate-fold painting of Morpheus in a sea of reds, oranges, and violets--this book has been crafted for a sensuous reading experience. Gaiman has developed as a prose stylist in the last several years with novels and stories such as Neverwhere and Stardust, and his narrative rings with a sense of timelessness and magic that gently sustains this adult fairy tale. The only disappointment here is that the book is so brief. One could imagine this creative team being even better suited to a longer story of more epic proportions. On the final page of Dream Hunters, in fact, Amano suggest that he will collaborate further with Mr. Gaiman in the future. Readers of Dream Hunters will hope that Amano's dream comes true. --Patrick O'Kelley]]> 128 Neil Gaiman 1840232048 Lucia 0 4.41 1999 The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
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]]> The Sandman: Book Four 59880901
Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven. 

In this climactic final volume, drawn by Marc Hempel, Jon J Muth, Charles Vess, and Michael Zulli, with contributions from D'Israeli, Teddy Kristiansen, Kevin Nowlan, and more, Dream becomes the target of the Furies—unstoppable agents of vengeance. Dark forces are at work, and what they set in motion will demand a sacrifice greater than any the Dreaming has yet known. The thrilling conclusion of The Sandman weaves together threads and pieces building since the beginning of the series, collecting issues #57-75 and stories from Vertigo Jam #1 and Dust The Collected Sandman Covers .]]> 528 Neil Gaiman 1779517106 Lucia 0 4.59 1996 The Sandman: Book Four
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average rating: 4.59
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]]> The Sandman: Book Three 60012213
Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven. 

In this third volume—drawn by artists Jill Thompson, Vince Locke, Bryan Talbot, and P. Craig Russell—Delirium, youngest of the extended family known as the Endless, prevails upon her brother Dream to help find their missing siblin, Destruction, and their quest draws Morpheus into a final, tragic confrontation with his son. Meanwhile, guest artists Michael Allred, Shea Anton Pensa, John Watkiss, Michael Zulli, and more provide the tall tales told on a stormy night at a remarkable the World's End. 

Collects stories from The Sandman #38-56 and Vertigo Preview #1, including the story arcs "Brief Lives" and "Worlds' End," among others.]]> 528 Neil Gaiman 1779516444 Lucia 0 4.44 1993 The Sandman: Book Three
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]]> The Sandman: Book Two 60012215
Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium's most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven.

In this second volume of the unforgettable epic—drawn by Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, Shawn McManus, and Collen Doran, with guest art by P. Craig Russell, Bryan Talbot, Matt Wagner, and more—Morpheus of the Endless must journey into Hell to rectify a ten-thousand-year-old injustice. But that means traveling through the realm of Lucifer, who after their last encounter swore he would destroy the King of Dreams...

Collects stories from The Sandman #21-37, The Sandman Special #1, and Vertigo: Winter's Edge #1-3, including the classic story arcs "Season of Mists" and "A Game of You," among others.
Read less]]> 544 Neil Gaiman 1779516436 Lucia 0 4.48 1992 The Sandman: Book Two
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average rating: 4.48
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]]> The Sandman (Sandman #1) 60012216
This first book collecting Neil Gaiman's genre-defining series about the Dream King. Collects Sandman issues #1-20.]]> 560 Neil Gaiman 1779515170 Lucia 0 4.47 1990 The Sandman (Sandman #1)
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name: Lucia
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Pinocchio: With Famous Annotated Story And Classic Illustrated]]> 61228193
Pinocchio is a cultural icon and one of the most reimagined characters in children's literature. His story has been adapted into many other media, notably the 1940 Disney film with the same name.]]> Carlo Collodi Lucia 0 4.17 1883 The Adventures of Pinocchio: With Famous Annotated Story And Classic Illustrated
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]]> Fortunately, the Milk 17349203
"Hullo," I said to myself. "That's not something you see every day. And then something odd happened."

Find out just how odd things get in this hilarious New York Times bestselling story of time travel and breakfast cereal, expertly told by Newbery Medalist and bestselling author Neil Gaiman and illustrated by Skottie Young.]]> 128 Neil Gaiman 0062224077 Lucia 0 4.04 2013 Fortunately, the Milk
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[Castle Shade (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #17)]]> 55348248 A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat—all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure.

The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Roumania's young dynasty, Marie had beguiled the Paris Peace Conference into returning her adopted country's long-lost provinces, single-handedly transforming Roumania from a backwater into a force.

The castle is Bran: a tall, quirky, ancient structure perched on high rocks overlooking the border between Roumania and its newly regained territory of Transylvania. The castle was a gift to Queen Marie, a thanks from her people, and she loves it as she loves her own children.

The threat is...now, that is less clear. Shadowy figures, vague whispers, the fears of girls, dangers that may only be accidents. But this is a land of long memory and hidden corners, a land that had known Vlad the Impaler, a land from whose churchyards the shades creep.

When Queen Marie calls, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are as dubious as they are reluctant. But a young girl is involved, and a beautiful queen. Surely it won't take long to shine light on this unlikely case of what would seem to be strigoi?

Or, as they are known in the West...vampires.]]> 384 Laurie R. King 0525620877 Lucia 0 4.35 2021 Castle Shade (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #17)
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average rating: 4.35
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little White Book for Easter 2022: Six-minute reflections on the parables of Jesus]]> 60684693 123 Ken Untener 1734440473 Lucia 0 4.81 The Little White Book for Easter 2022: Six-minute reflections on the parables of Jesus
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]]> <![CDATA[A Study of Rusalki - Slavic Mermaids of Eastern Europe (Spirits and Creatures Series Book 2)]]> 48516823
Discover the allure of Slavic mermaids � Rusalki. Author Ronesa Aveela takes an in-depth look at these pale, beautiful water maidens who captivated her heart as a child in the tales her grandmother told her.

Rusalki � Slavic Mermaids, the second book in the series of Eastern European mythology and folklore, takes you into the heart of a rural culture focused on fertility and survival. Through folklore, literature, music, videos, and illustrations, you’ll uncover the secrets of these spirits who have haunted Eastern Europe for centuries.

Here are a few topics you can expect to find within the book’s

·         Learn how to protect yourself from their enchantments.

·         Read about terrifying encounters.

·         Discover how “magical healers� cure the inflicted of the dreaded “Rusalka Disease.�

Rusalki � Slavic Mermaids is an enlightening nonfiction cultural study in the Spirits and Creatures series. If you like impeccable research, chilling stories, and clever humor, then you’ll love Ronesa Aveela’s educational folklore series.

Explore the pages of Rusalki � Slavic Mermaids today to discover a world of wonders.]]> 344 Ronesa Aveela 194939798X Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.37 A Study of Rusalki - Slavic Mermaids of Eastern Europe (Spirits and Creatures Series Book 2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Black Book for Lent 2022: Six-minute meditations on the parables of Jesus]]> 60145667 119 Ken Untener 1734440465 Lucia 5 4.81 The Little Black Book for Lent 2022: Six-minute meditations on the parables of Jesus
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.81
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]]> Man, Fuck This House 59224051
At first glance, the house is perfect. But things aren't what they seem.

Sabrina's hearing odd noises, seeing strange visions. Their neighbors are odd or absent. And Sabrina's already-fraught relationship with her son is about to be tested in a way no parent could ever imagine.

Because while the Haskins family might be the newest owners of 4596 James Circle, they're far from its only residents...]]> 158 Brian Asman Lucia 0 currently-reading 3.33 2021 Man, Fuck This House
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name: Lucia
average rating: 3.33
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]]> The King's Daughter 58929789 Winner of the Nebula Award and now a major motion "A luminous, radiant novel" (Ursula K. Le Guin, author of the Earthsea series).

During the late seventeenth century, Louis XIV's natural philosopher and explorer, Father Yves de la Croix, does what no one has done for four hundred he brings a living sea monster to land. Thus begins a stunning fantasy, a journey into science and superstition, and an alternate history in which Yves and his sister, Marie-Josephe--a lady-in-waiting with her own finely tuned intelligence and insatiable curiosity--struggle to learn from and protect the sea woman. As Marie-Josephe translates the sea woman's songs into stories, she hopes to stave off the creature's inevitable execution--for Louis XIV believes the wondrous being holds the secret to the immortality he craves, a twisted obsession that will force brother and sister to choose between their conscience and their loyalty to king and country . . .

The basis for the movie starring Pierce Brosnan, The King's Daughter is "a dazzling and spirited evocation of the passions, intrigues, and preconceptions of the age, along with a dandy pair of misfit, star-crossed an enchanting slice of what-if historical speculation" (Kirkus Reviews).

"A wonderful book! Adventure, love, history, magic." --Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of Outlander

"A plot that sings, enchanting romance, and a depth of insight into human nature." --SF Site

"A marvelous alternative-history fable about greed and goodness, power and pathos set at the 17th century court of Louis XIV, France's glittering Sun King . . . [McIntyre's] imaginings enliven her history with wonder, but, as in the best fantasy, they serve less to dazzle by their inventiveness than to illuminate brilliantly real-world truths--here, humanity's responses, base and noble, when confronting the unknown." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Combines two demanding genres, with some remarkable twists unlike anything I've seen before. It is a science fiction story of first contact with an alien race, but told in a setting more often associated with fantasy. It is also historical romance at its best, the type of meticulously researched work that brings another era to life. McIntyre infuses it all with her marvelously unique style." --Catherine Asaro, award-winning author

Previously published as The Moon and the Sun]]> 522 Vonda N. McIntyre 1504067401 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.03 1997 The King's Daughter
author: Vonda N. McIntyre
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1997
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Seasons 2021-2022: Six-minute Reflections on the Advent/Christmas Season Weekday Gospels]]> 59469505 That’s what you’re asked to give during these next 43 days � the 27 days of the Advent season, and the 16 days of the Christmas season.
Each 24-hour day has 240 “six minute� packages. During the Advent and Christmas seasons, you’re asked to give one of those to the Lord.]]> 112 Ken Untener 1734440457 Lucia 5 4.91 The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Seasons 2021-2022: Six-minute Reflections on the Advent/Christmas Season Weekday Gospels
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.91
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]]> <![CDATA[The Book of Bunny Suicides (Bunny Suicides, #1)]]> 58094 The Book of Bunny Suicides follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more outlandish ways to do themselves in. From an encounter with the business end of Darth Vader's lightsaber, to supergluing themselves to a diving submarine, to hanging around underneath a loose stalactite, these bunnies are serious about suicide.

Illustrated in a stark and simple style, The Book of Bunny Suicides is a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons that will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side.]]> 96 Andy Riley 0452285186 Lucia 5 4.02 2003 The Book of Bunny Suicides (Bunny Suicides, #1)
author: Andy Riley
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2003
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little White Book for Easter 2021: Six-minute reflections on the Sunday Gospels of Easter (Year B)]]> 57367092 103 Ken Untener 1734440449 Lucia 0 4.73 The Little White Book for Easter 2021: Six-minute reflections on the Sunday Gospels of Easter (Year B)
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name: Lucia
average rating: 4.73
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]]> Motel of the Mysteries 108831 96 David Macaulay 0395284252 Lucia 5 4.11 1979 Motel of the Mysteries
author: David Macaulay
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1979
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Black Book for Lent 2021: Six-minute meditations on the Sunday Gospels of Lent (Cycle B)]]> 56169463 147 Ken Untener 1734440430 Lucia 0 4.80 The Little Black Book for Lent 2021: Six-minute meditations on the Sunday Gospels of Lent (Cycle B)
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.80
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]]> <![CDATA[...and Then You Die Of Dysentery: Lessons in Adulting from the Oregon Trail]]> 39901335
Pack your wagons, find your ride-or-(literally) die friends, and roll up to Matt’s General Store with a sack of cash—it’s time to hit the Oregon Trail, twenty-first-century style! …And Then You Die of Dysentery is the perfect send-up to the sometimes frustrating, always entertaining, and universally beloved Oregon Trail computer game. Featuring a four-color design in the game’s iconic 8-bit format, alongside pop culture references galore, the book offers 50 humorous, snarky lessons gleaned from the game’s most iconic moments, including gems such
� Suffering from exhaustion is a real thing . (It’s not just PR code for why a celebrity went to rehab.)
� If you hunt too frequently in one area, game will become scarce. (The first signs of gentrification!)
� Invite your sweetie to cuddle with you while looking up at the stars. (The night sky was the original Netflix & Chill. Step 1: Loosen up Orion’s belt...)

With its laugh-out-loud commentary and its absurdist nostalgia,  ...And Then You Die of Dysentery  is the ultimate trip down memory lane � all the way to the Willamette Valley.]]> 112 Lauren Reeves 1328624390 Lucia 0 3.19 2018 ...and Then You Die Of Dysentery: Lessons in Adulting from the Oregon Trail
author: Lauren Reeves
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.19
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]]> <![CDATA[The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Seasons 2020-2021: Six-minute reflections on the Sunday Gospels of Year B]]> 55550935 That’s what you’re asked to give during these next 43 days � the 26 days of the Advent season, and the 17 days of the Christmas season.
Each 24-hour day has 240 “six minute� packages. During the Advent and Christmas seasons, you’re asked to give one of those to the Lord."]]> 90 Ken Untener 1734440422 Lucia 0 4.74 The Little Blue Book Advent and Christmas Seasons 2020-2021: Six-minute reflections on the Sunday Gospels of Year B
author: Ken Untener
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.74
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]]> Don't Call the Wolf 40245031 A forest, besieged. A queen, unyielding. Fans of Leigh Bardugo and Holly Black will devour this deliciously dark Eastern European–inspired YA fantasy debut.

When the Golden Dragon descended on the forest of Kamiena, a horde of monsters followed in its wake.

Ren, the forest’s young queen, is slowly losing her battle against them. Until she rescues Lukasz—the last survivor of a heroic regiment of dragon slayers—and they strike a deal. She will help him find his brother, who vanished into her forest� if Lukasz promises to slay the Dragon.

But promises are all too easily broken.]]> 512 Aleksandra Ross Lucia 0 3.59 2020 Don't Call the Wolf
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name: Lucia
average rating: 3.59
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]]> <![CDATA[The Palace of Lost Memories (After the Rift, #1)]]> 40803509
The king's magnificent palace was built in a matter of weeks. No one saw the builders, no villagers are allowed beyond the gilded gate, and only one servant has ever left. The haunted look in her eyes as she was recaptured by the palace guards is something Josie, daughter of the village doctor, has never forgotten.

For Josie, the palace is a mystery that grows more intriguing after she meets the captain of the guards, a man known only as Hammer, as mysterious and captivating as the palace itself. Whispers of magic fuel Josie's desire to uncover the truth, but an ordinary girl like her can only dream of ever being invited inside.

When the king decides to take a wife from among the eligible daughters of the noble families, the palace gates are finally thrown open and the kingdom's elite pour in. In a court where old rivalries and new jealousies collide, the king's favorite is poisoned and the doctor is summoned. As her father's assistant, Josie finally sees inside the lavish walls, but she soon learns the palace won't surrender its secrets easily, for not a single resident, from the lowest servant to the king himself, has a memory from before the palace existed.

In the search for the truth, Josie is drawn deeper into danger, and the answers she seeks might shake the very foundations of the kingdom.]]> 262 C.J. Archer Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.03 2018 The Palace of Lost Memories (After the Rift, #1)
author: C.J. Archer
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.03
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]]> Mexican Gothic 53152636
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.]]> 320 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 0525620788 Lucia 0 3.66 2020 Mexican Gothic
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> Station Eleven 20170404 An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end.

Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.]]> 333 Emily St. John Mandel 0385353308 Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.05 2014 Station Eleven
author: Emily St. John Mandel
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.05
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]]> Gods of Jade and Shadow 49185974 The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore.

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.

Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it—and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea’s demise, but success could make her dreams come true.

In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City—and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld.]]> 340 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 052562077X Lucia 5 3.89 2019 Gods of Jade and Shadow
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: Lucia
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)]]> 30225035 Alex Award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo is a Tor.com original historcal fantasy set in an alternate early twentieth century infused with the otherworldly.

Egypt, 1912. In Cairo, the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities investigate disturbances between the mortal and the (possibly) divine.

What starts off as an odd suicide case for Special Investigator Fatma el-Sha’arawi leads her through the city’s underbelly as she encounters rampaging ghouls, saucy assassins, clockwork angels, and a plot that could unravel time itself.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 47 P. Djèlí Clark Lucia 0 currently-reading 4.14 2016 A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)
author: P. Djèlí Clark
name: Lucia
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2016
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